Congenital spinal lipomatous malformations: Part I-classification

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 179-188

  Muthukumar, Natarajan ^a,b  

^a MADURAI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Muruganagam   (India)

Author keywords

Lipomyelocele; Lipomyelomeningocele; Lumbosacral lipoma; Magnetic resonance imaging; Occult spinal dysraphism; Spinal dysraphism; Spinal lipoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DURA MATER; EMBRYOLOGY; HUMAN; LIPOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINX DISORDER; MYELOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINAL LIPOMA; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CAUDA EQUINA; CHILD; DURA MATER; HUMANS; LIPOMATOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; SACRUM; SPINAL CANAL; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM;

EID: 62149111492     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-009-0208-6     Document Type: Article

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